All Episodes
AI and Design — 33 episodes
Mobbin MCP, Perplexity and Nvidia Local AI Agent, Design Ledgers
Figma Make Time Savings, LLM Bias Affects Designers, Target's AI/UX Bid, EasyCircuit
Deep Dive: Andy Budd on the Future of the Design Industry
Summer 2026 Hot Takes
Deep Dive: 2026 Figma AI Report with Figma's Andrew Hogan and Shane Johnston
Training Taste, AI Systems Thinking, LLM Counter Defaults, and special guest Dan Maccarone
Bye Bye Purple Gradients: OpenAI's Design Push. Plus special guests: fuguUX
2026 Thus Far: 7 Big Themes
Claude Design 2.0, Quality Bars, Layers of AI Experience, Perplexity Brain
Hot Takes and Big Themes from Config 2026
Siri AI, A New Interaction-Focused AI Lab, Four Design AI Jobs, Perplexity Computer Research
Copilot Redesign, Is AI ever Done, Amazon Proteus, Miro's Head of AI Design Mark Boyes-Smith
Figma and Stitch Updates, Design Memory, Fraude Design, Quilter CEO Sergiy Nesterenko
Figma Design Agent, 2026 AI in Design Report, Synthetic Customers, Llewyn Paine on UXR
AI Originality, Bolt-on AI, Special Guest: Fin's VP of Product Design Thom Rimmer
Cognitive Surrender, Speed isn't The Bottleneck, and special guest PM Thomas Groendal
Agent Users, New Design Team Structures, Team Dynamics, AI Chat Problems, Constraints Not Prompts
Deep Dive: AI Skills (with Google's MC Dean)
Claude Design, Innovative AI and Design Research from CHI 2026
Insights from Anthropic's Head of Design, Why AI UX Sucks, AI Aesthetics, Human-Centered Design 2.0
Deep Dive: The Future of Design Practice and Process (with author Mike Kuniavsky)
Claude Computer Use, Product Intuition, Author Chris Noessel ("Designing Assistant Technology")
Google Stitch, 2026 Design in Tech Report, Downloadable Design Skills
AI Image Editors, Institutional v Individual AI, Author Louise MacFadyen ("Designing AI Interfaces")
Very Special Hot Takes Episode: Product Sense, AI Brain Fry, Real Time UI and much much more
Jenny Wen's Three Types of AI Designers, Designers Should Be Crushing It, Managing AI Pressure
Code and Canvas, Computer Use Agents, The Mythical Agent-Month, Will "Taste" Save Designers?
State of The Designer 2026, User Control of AI, Waiting is the New Interruption, AI Intensifies Work
OpenAI's Frontier, The Return of The Intuitive Designer, Special Guest: Figma's Shane Johnson
Figma MCP, UX vs MX, OpenClaw, Creativity Research, and User Research in 2026
Google AI Studio Design Mode, AI at Davos, Claude's Constitution, and Software Too Cheap to Meter
Impeccable, AI as Entertainment, The Four Horsemen of the AIpocalypse
Microsoft Copilot Checkout, Google A2UI, Razer Ava, 2026 Predictions